Essef - 1982 - pocket - 275 p. - He was Clear Blue Lou, perfect master of the Clear Blue Way, at one with the law of muscle, sun, wind and water governing Aquaria. She was Sunshine Sue, always in a hurry in a world that was too slow, Queen of Word of Mouth. Their meeting had been arranged - but by whom? and why? Beyond the beginning of where the world ended, beyond the highest peaks of its primeval majesty, lay a radio active hell and the lairs of the black sorcerers, the Spacers... (F)

Spinrad, Norman
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Songs from the Stars
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Pocket Books
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114286

€ 3,50 (voorraad = 1)

Essef - 1981 - pocket - 275 p. - He was Clear Blue Lou, perfect master of the Clear Blue Way, at one with the law of muscle, sun, wind and water governing Aquaria. She was Sunshine Sue, always in a hurry in a world that was too slow, Queen of Word of Mouth. Their meeting had been arranged - but by whom? and why? Beyond the beginning of where the world ended, beyond the highest peaks of its primeval majesty, lay a radio active hell and the lairs of the black sorcerers, the Spacers... (VG-)

Spinrad, Norman
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The Star-spangled Future
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Ace
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083962

€ 3,25 (voorraad = 1)

Essef - 1979 - pocket - 401 p. - Collection. American Dream or American Nightmare? Norman Spinrad describes The Star-Spangled Future: "America is something new under the sun. not so much a nation at all as a precog flash of the future of the species... I wrote believing that I was simply writing disconnected science fiction stories from whatever came into my head... And they all turned out to be about America, the leading edge of all possible futures unfolding around us... After all, that was what was coming into my head, that's the mother lode of science fiction realities - the American fusion plasma of which we are creatures - and all we have to do is keep ourselves open to it... that's my definition of science fiction. We have seen the future and it is us." (G, sawblade mark)

Fantasy - 1979 - pocket - 222 p. - Welcome to Isle, a land of fantasy that existed long before there were such things. Surrounded by vast oceans and dotted with thick forests, Isle was a land in which all beings lived together. There were gods and ghosts dwelling with the Old Ones, the wise ancient ancestors. During this period, The Book of Suns began its life, though little was known about its contents. The mighty marriage between Sun and Moon begins an adventure never seen before. (VG)

Springer, Nancy
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Book of the Isle 1: The White Hart
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TOR
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094307

€ 2,50 (voorraad = 1)

Fantasy - 1979 - pocket - 222 p. - Welcome to Isle, a land of fantasy that existed long before there were such things. Surrounded by vast oceans and dotted with thick forests, Isle was a land in which all beings lived together. There were gods and ghosts dwelling with the Old Ones, the wise ancient ancestors. During this period, The Book of Suns began its life, though little was known about its contents. The mighty marriage between Sun and Moon begins an adventure never seen before. (VG-, some spine wear)

Fantasy - 1980 - first PB printing - pocket - 292 p. - In the Kingdom of Isle, where the Sun Kings reign with the power of the Book of the Suns, Hal and Alan are given a mission. They must use the ancient strength of wisdom to destroy the evil that plagues the kingdom. The two blood brothers venture throughout the land fighting the many forms that this evil takes so they can arrive at their destiny. (VG)

Fantasy - 1995 - pocket - 277 p. - Larque creates temporary people from nothing, which does not become a problem until a ten-year-old version of herself leads her on a search for lost dreams and she returns stronger, braver - and male. (VG-, name inside)

Springer, Nancy
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Sea King 1: Madbond
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Baen
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122217

€ 3,50 (voorraad = 1)

Fantasy - 1987 - first printing - pocket - 214 p. - Dannoc: Red Hart tribe warrior, who had witnessed horror overwhelming enough to steal his memory - and his mind. Rad Korridun: king of the Seal Kindred tribe, who should have taken a crazed killer's life - but gave him new life, instead. Tassida: tribeless wanderer, who had roamed the world of ruins beyond the mountains, and found no one - no one at all.. (VG+)

Springer, Nancy
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Wings of Flame
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TOR
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053761

€ 3,50 (voorraad = 1)

Fantasy - 1986 - pocket - 252 p. - In Wings of Flame, her hardcover debut, Springer creates a fantastic new world as the setting for this story of a prince and an orphan who must save a kingdom under siege by an ancient and twisted magic. (VG+)

Essef - 1979 - first Dell printing - pocket - 252 p. - Best known for his Elias Kane sequence about an intelligently moody detective and his superpowered sidekick: The Psychopath Plague (1978), The Imperator Plot (1982) and Paradox Planet (1988). The series seems incomplete; but, although a template interminability attends Kane's repeated assignments, granted him by the current Imperator who rules Earth and several colonies... (G)

Essef - 2000 - pocket - 356 p. - Edmund Templeton, a time-manipulating sorcerer, and Istvan Czernin, the deathless spirit of WWI, are the most powerful agents of the magical cabal now ruling the US East Coast. Their struggle to establish a new order in the wake of magical catastrophe is under siege: cults flourish and armies clash on their borders. Perhaps worst of all the meteoric rise of a technological fortress-state threatens their efforts to keep the peace... (VG)

Stableford, Brian
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To Challenge Chaos
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Daw
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119272

€ 2,50 (voorraad = 2)

Essef - 1972 - pocket - 160 p. - Last trip out to the only world that spans two universes. (VG)

Essef - 1978 - pocket - 174 p. - Once a colony ship had left Earth it could not be recalled or even contacted. The fate of these vessels and their passengers remained a tantalizing mystery to those who stayed at home. Ths mission of the scientific recontact ship Daedalus was to go out ther and discover what happened - and to help the colonists if their developing worlds were in difficulties. This is the account of the first flight of the Daedalus and its crew of seven... (VG)

Essef - 1976 - pocket - 158 p. - Once a colony ship had left Earth it could not be recalled or even contacted. The fate of these vessels and their passengers remained a tantalizing mystery to those who stayed at home. Ths mission of the scientific recontact ship Daedalus was to go out ther and discover what happened - and to help the colonists if their developing worlds were in difficulties. This is the account of the first flight of the Daedalus and its crew of seven... (VG)

Essef - 1978 - pocket - 174 p. - Once a colony ship had left Earth it could not be recalled or even contacted. The fate of these vessels and their passengers remained a tantalizing mystery to those who stayed at home. Ths mission of the scientific recontact ship Daedalus was to go out ther and discover what happened - and to help the colonists if their developing worlds were in difficulties. This is the account of the first flight of the Daedalus and its crew of seven... (G, writings inside)

Essef - 1974 - pocket - 156 p. - Humans and Beasts alike were licking their wounds after the bloodiest battle in cosmic history. They had been mere puppets in a hideous game, their strings pulled by a cruel master, Heljanita the toymaker. He had used what he considered the ultimate weapon... (VG)

Stableford, Brian M.
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Hooded Swan 1: Halcyon Drift
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Pan
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081409

€ 2,75 (voorraad = 3)

Essef - 1976 - pocket - 155 p. - S.O.S. From the dark Nebula. Grainger had acquired a second mind - he didn't want it and it had never asked him for permission. But the disembodied mentalism had invaded his brain during the crack space pilot's castaway months on the edge of the Halcyon Drift. The Halcyon Drift was a dark nebula within whose electronic chaos the laws of physics were so distorted that space ships could not explore within its vast borders without near-certain catastrophe... (VG)

Stableford, Brian M.
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Hooded Swan 1: Halcyon Drift
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Daw
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114306

€ 2,75 (voorraad = 1)

Essef - 1972 - first printing - pocket - 175 p. - S.O.S. From the dark Nebula. Grainger had acquired a second mind - he didn't want it and it had never asked him for permission. But the disembodied mentalism had invaded his brain during the crack space pilot's castaway months on the edge of the Halcyon Drift. The Halcyon Drift was a dark nebula within whose electronic chaos the laws of physics were so distorted that space ships could not explore within its vast borders without near-certain catastrophe... (VG)

Essef - 1973 - 1st printing - pocket - 157 p. - Hooded Swan was the best starship in the Galaxy, and Grainger the best pilot. The trip to Rhapsody brought nothing but trouble. The poverty stricken fanatics who lived in its subterranean labyrinths had found a source of riches. In the race for the planet's secret wealth, Grainger found it could destroy civilization. (VG-)

Essef - 1977 - 2nd printing - pocket - 138 p. - Hooded Swan was the best starship in the Galaxy, and Grainger the best pilot. The trip to Rhapsody brought nothing but trouble. The poverty stricken fanatics who lived in its subterranean labyrinths had found a source of riches. In the race for the planet's secret wealth, Grainger found it could destroy civilization. (VG-, name on titlepage)

Stableford, Brian M.
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Hooded Swan 3: Promised Land
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Daw
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114308

€ 2,75 (voorraad = 1)

Essef - 1974 - first printing - pocket - 160 p. - They had set out from Earth in search of the promised land - and after centuries of flight they believed they had found it. It was already inhabited, but by a primitive and peaceful humanoid race that gave them no opposition. This was the situation when the Hooded Swan landed on its information-seeking mission for the vast interstellar libraries of New Alexandria. Grainger, man of the double-mind, realized early that there was something odd about the truce between the xenophobic colonists and the docile natives. It took a fleeing wide-eyed native child to bring the Promised Land suddenly to critical mass... (VG)

Essef - 1974 - first printing - pocket - 158 p. - Everyone seeks paradise. If the explorers of the planets could find a world that answered the description, it could be a holiday world beyond price. When the Hooded Swan landed on Pharos, it was indeed all that paradise could be. They came to investigate, they stayed to protect. for unless they played the role of the angel with the flaming sword, very soon this softest & gentlest world of all men's dreams would become another gaudy hellhole of exploitation... (VG)

Essef - 1974 - first printing - pocket - 158 p. - Everyone seeks paradise. If the explorers of the planets could find a world that answered the description, it could be a holiday world beyond price. When the Hooded Swan landed on Pharos, it was indeed all that paradise could be. They came to investigate, they stayed to protect. for unless they played the role of the angel with the flaming sword, very soon this softest & gentlest world of all men's dreams would become another gaudy hellhole of exploitation... (VG-, name inside)

Essef - 1978 - pocket - 158 p. - Everyone seeks paradise. If the explorers of the planets could find a world that answered the description, it could be a holiday world beyond price. When the Hooded Swan landed on Pharos, it was indeed all that paradise could be. They came to investigate, they stayed to protect. for unless they played the role of the angel with the flaming sword, very soon this softest & gentlest world of all men's dreams would become another gaudy hellhole of exploitation... (VG-, name on titlepage)

Essef - 1974 - first printing - pocket - 156 p. - The oldest spacefaring race in the galaxy were the secretive Gallacellans. The most difficult type of planet to explore is the heavy gas giant, the Jovian-Saturnian type planet with which all star systems abound. Somewhere on the storm-ridden unapproachable surface of such a monstrous gas giant an abandoned Gallacellan warship was lying... (VG)

Stableford, Brian M.
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Hooded Swan 6: Swan Song
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Daw
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113602

€ 2,25 (voorraad = 1)

Essef - 1975 - first printing - pocket - 158 p. - Grainger's time of service was nearly up. Pilot of the marvel spaceship Hooded Swan, the strange double-mind that occupied his brain had pulled him out of difficulties that would have doomed anyone else. But now Grainger had been warned. This trip could be the end. Because nobody knew what a newly created reality meant in terms of physics and chemistry... (VG)

Stableford, Brian M.
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Hooded Swan 6: Swan Song
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Daw
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4131409

€ 1,75 (voorraad = 1)

Essef - 1975 - first printing - pocket - 158 p. - Grainger's time of service was nearly up. Pilot of the marvel spaceship Hooded Swan, the strange double-mind that occupied his brain had pulled him out of difficulties that would have doomed anyone else. But now Grainger had been warned. This trip could be the end. Because nobody knew what a newly created reality meant in terms of physics and chemistry... (VG-, name inside)

Stableford, Brian M.
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Optiman
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Daw
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122642

€ 2,75 (voorraad = 1)

Essef - 1980 - first printing - pocket - 190 p. - Throughout the centuries that have passed since humans first ventured into interstellar space, they have been at war with the alien Veich. The human race has, in consequence, been fully militarized, its educational system being a form of military training - which includes, among other disciplines, the elimination of fear from the human psyche... (VG+)

Essef - 1977 - first printing - pocket - 192 p. - If millions pay today just to watch two men fight for a champion's crown, tens of millions will pay for the additional thrill of being actually within the mind and body of the boxers themselves, without having to feel the pain. This is the story of Ryan Hart's final fight... (VG)